University of Washington Professor Peter Pecora will present “Most Important Issues in Foster Care Research in the Next Decade” as part of the School of Social Work’s discussion series Work In Progress. His talk will be held Thursday, April 15 at 2:30 pm in 145 Peters Hall on the St. Paul campus. Space for the talk will be limited so an RSVP is required. More information is available by contacting Jeffrey Edleson at (612) 624-8795 or at jedleson@umn.edu.
Mestenhauser receives award for innovative international research and scholarship
Josef Mestenhauser, Ph.D., professor emeritus of comparative and international development education in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, is the recipient of a new award by the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers’ (NAFSA) Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLS) Knowledge Community honoring research excellence. The Award for Innovative Research and Scholarship in Internationalization will be given for the first time by TLS at the 2010 NAFSA Annual Conference in Kansas City (May 30-June 4). Professor emeritus Mestenhauser was the former NAFSA president from 1987-88.
Educational Psychology graduate students selected for ETS internships
Julio Cabrera and Catherine Close, graduate students in Educational Psychology (Quantitative Methods in Education), have been selected to participate in the Educational Testing Service (ETS) psychometric summer internship program. This program is very competitive, selecting fewer than 25 graduate students from around the country. Julio and Catherine will spend two months in Princeton New Jersey, working closely with ETS researchers on measurement related projects. ETS is the largest educational research non-profit organization in the world.
College readiness grant helps teachers deliver dual language immersion program
Associate Professor Diane Tedick (second languages and cultures education, Curriculum and Instruction) was awarded a “Ramp-Up to Readiness” grant, to be funded through the University’s College Readiness Consortium. The grant project, titled “Sheltered Instruction and Language/Literacy Development Strategies for Middle School Teachers Serving Diverse Learners,” will support professional development for Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) teachers, who will be teaching in the newly designed joint Dual Immersion and International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme housed at Anwatin Middle School. Tedick has been working with MPS since November to design the new program, which will serve native Spanish-speaking Latino learners and a highly diverse group of native English-speaking students.
Tedick reviews post-secondary Hawaiian language immersion programs
Diane Tedick (associate professor, second languages and cultures education, Curriculum and Instruction) has just returned from a week at the University of Hawaii-Hilo (UH-H) where she served an external reviewer of two post-secondary Hawaiian immersion programs within the College of Hawaiian Language. UH-H educators have worked over 30 years on efforts to revitalize the endangered Hawaiian language and culture through immersion education. Theirs is the first post-secondary indigenous immersion effort in the US. It is now possible for students to complete a majority of their education from preschool through the doctoral level in Hawaiian.
Kari Smalkoski named Hmong Studies Fellow, 2010-11
The Program in Asian American Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota are hosting Kari Smalkoski as a graduate fellow in Hmong Studies, generously funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Smalkoski is a Ph.D. student in Culture and Teaching in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Read her profile on the Institute for Advanced Studies site. A post-doctoral position in Hmong studies is also being hosted.
M.Ed. student Stork awarded Promise of Tomorrow Scholarship
Julie Stork, special education student in Educational Psychology, has been awarded the CEHD Alumni Society’s Promise of Tomorrow Scholarship.This scholarship recognizes academic performance and potential for making a significant contribution to the field of education and human development for an undergraduate student or a student enrolled in the college’s initial teacher licensure program. The college will honor Julie and other scholarship recipients at the Celebration of Scholars event in the fall.
Jitendra presents at PCRC
Educational Psychology professor Asha Jitendra presented at the Pacific Coast Research Conference (PCRC) in Coronado, CA, in February. She co-authored a poster with M. Gajria (Professor, St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY) and C. Burgess (doctoral candidate, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA), entitled “Is cognitive strategy instruction for teaching expository text comprehension an evidence-based practice?” She also participated in a panel session on “The effects of schema-based instruction on seventh graders’ learning of ratios, proportions, and percents,” with J.R. Starr (Harvard University).
Rodriguez to participate on National Board of Professional Teaching Standards advisory group
Educational Psychology associate professor Michael Rodriguez has been invited to participate on the National Board Certification for Accomplished Principals Technical Advisory Group (NBCAP TAG). At the request of several educational leader organizations, National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has initiated a three-year plan to develop core propositions, standards, and assessments that will define and certify accomplished principals. The mission of the TAG is to advise NBPTS on the specification, design, development and validation of National Board Certification for Accomplished Principal assessments. The TAG will also design the technical manual and recommend and review the studies to be conducted to provide the empirical evidence that will help inform Board policies and practices related to the certification assessment development and delivery process, including scoring. Rodriguez previously served as the Chair of the NBPTS Assessment Certification Advisory Panel from 2007-2008.
New York Times article on violence in women’s sport quotes Kane
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., chair of the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, is quoted in a March 21, 2010, New York Times article, “In Women’s Sports, Pushing Back at Stereotypes,” by Jeré Longman. The article is an analysis of recent aggressive behavior by female athletes in a college sports culture that may be fostering an increase in violence and dirty tactics.
Rodriguez presents at AACTE
Educational Psychology associate professor Michael Rodriguez presented at the February annual meeting of Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) in Atlanta with his colleague Teresa Tatto from Michigan State University. They presented on the methodological challenges and some initial findings from the first international study of teacher education in mathematics (TEDS-M), funded through NSF and IEA. Rodriguez serves as the Senior Research Coordinator for Psychometrics on the 18-country research project.
Burns publishes book on RTI
Educational Psychology associate professor Matthew Burns has co-authored a new book, Essentials of Response to Intervention (Wiley, 2010), with Amanda VanDerHeyden, President, Education Research and Consulting.
Buns’ and VanDerHeyden’s book is the lastest in the Essentials series. It provides a concise overview of Response to Intervention (RTI), psychometric assessment issues of RTI, and guidelines for its successful implementation. It includes appendix material to assist in the evaluation of RTI data, troubleshoot instruction, and monitor interventions.
International exchange program hosts Ugandan soccer coaches
Like music and art, sports is a universal language. A unique opportunity for sports to bring people together across continents will take place in the Twin Cities from March 22-March 30, when four Ugandan soccer (football) coaches will travel to Minneapolis to work with partners from the University of Minnesota and Macalester College to learn advanced coach training and collaborate on a new coaching curriculum to take back to children and youth soccer players in Uganda.
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Ph.D. student Parker awarded CEHD Alumni Society Scholarship
David Parker, doctoral student in Educational Psychology, was awarded the CEHD Alumni Society’s Advanced Study Scholarship. The Society’s criteria for granting this award are academic performance and potential for making a significant contribution to the field of education and human development–David’s selection as a recipient denotes excellence in both areas. The college will honor David and other scholarship recipients at the Celebration of Scholars event in the fall.
Faculty, students study the impact of high school math curricula on college math achievement
Educational Psychology professor Michael Harwell and Curriculum & Instruction professor Thomas Post coauthored a paper entitled “A Multi-Institutional Study of the Impact of High School Mathematics Curricula on College Mathematics Achievement and Course-Taking” with Debra Monson, C&I graduate student, and Amanuel Medhanie, Danielle Dupuis, and Brandon LeBeau, Educational Psychology graduate students. The paper was presented earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Washington, D.C.
Reaching the iParent
Associate Professor Susan Walker (family, youth, and community education, Curriculum and Instruction) gave the keynote presentation to the Northwest Regional Parent Educators conference, in Vancouver, WA, on Tuesday, March 14. The topic was “Reaching the iParent: The changing world of technology and parent education.”
Masten shares expertise on children’s resilience in ‘Ida’s Story’
Ida’s Story, a documentary about a remarkable family, Ida Sokoloff and her six siblings, who survived the Cossack invasion of the Ukraine in 1918 and spent two years on their own, will be shown at the Walker Art Center as part of Women with Vision 2010 film series. The film aims to explore the issue of how genocide happens and how we can make a difference by exploring the issue through the story of the Sokoloff children. The story is told by Ida, who was 8 at the time of the invasion and in her 90s when she was filmed. Among the experts included in the documentary to discuss the children’s adaptation and survival is Ann Masten, professor in the Institute of Child Development, who participated in the filming as an expert on resilience.
Screening is Saturday, March 20, at 1:30 pm, and ticket information is available on the Walker website.
Ingraham quoted in publications, presents at State High School Football Coaches Association
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Stacy Ingraham, Ph.D., Kinesiology lecturer and exercise physiologist, has been quoted in two publications this month. She wrote an article for the Centennial Soccer Association’s newsletter on running and soccer and was interviewed for the online publication Healthy Women on the positive effects of bike riding .
On March 26, Ingraham will be presenting to the Minnesota State High School Football Coaches Association on “Nutrition & Hydration Considerations for Football Players” and “The SEC Football Model: The Research Based Speed Model.”
Kinesiology alum Linda Wells receives U of M Outstanding Achievement Award
Linda Wells, Kinesiology master’s graduate, has recently received an Outstanding Achievement Award by the U of M Board of Regents. This prestigious award is the highest non-academic honor that can be conferred on University graduates for their exceptional accomplishments in their chosen fields with respect to public service, or outstanding leadership and achievement on a community, state, national or international level.
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Kinesiology student Ruggeiro elected to International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission
Kinesiology M.Ed. student and Women’s Sports Foundation Board of Trustee member Angela Ruggiero was recently elected to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission. Ruggeiro, who was elected by her peers, will serve an eight-year term representing Olympic athletes to the IOC. Commission members also take part in evaluating cities competing to host the Olympic Games, reviewing sports programs for the Games, and anti-doping efforts.
Ruggiero, a star player on the U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team, recently participated in her fourth Winter Olympic Games.